ERNEST GLEN WEVER - National Academy of Sciences

378 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
poor that any suggestion he made would be an improvement.
In 1950 the National Institutes of Health established grants
dedicated to the construction of research facilities. One
such grant was awarded to Professor Wever, which resulted
in the construction of the Auditory Research Laboratories
at Princeton. The laboratory, built in the region of Princeton’s
football stadium, was soon evacuated in order to permit
expansion of the stadium. The laboratories were then constructed
on the north side of Princeton’s Forestall Campus.
The unique feature of the Forestall Laboratory was Wever’s
design. Each laboratory was established as a separate small
building rather than being separate rooms in a single building.
The concept of separate buildings provided excellent
sound isolation, and, in an effort to provide electromagnetic
radiation isolation, the outside wall of the internal
sound chamber was lined with copper sheeting and the
inside wall of its outside chamber was lined in a similar
fashion. These chambers provided excellent isolation and
conditions for recording the low-voltage electrophysiological
signals of the auditory system.
During his lifetime Glen Wever received many awards
and honors, starting in 1932 with the first award of the
Howard Crosby Warren Gold Medal from the Society of
Experimental Psychologists. This award was in recognition
of the initial recordings of the AC cochlear potentials of
the inner ear. Toward the end of his career he received the
Award of Merit from the Association for Research in
Otolaryngology, indicating that his contribution to science
was not a one-shot affair but rather an ongoing lifetime of
contributions. Other awards included the Shambaugh Prize
of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum, the Silver Medal
of the Acoustical Society of America, and an honorary degree
from the University of Michigan.